Transferable Skills in Workplace
Introduction
As a student, it never too soon to look at the job market in which you will be operating as a job seeker, and at what can help you to maximize the chance of having a profitable job. To be attractive to the employer is that students have to acquire during the school time. Nowadays, there have been many researches on 'employability', which is generally regarded as a broader concept of skills in the workplace. According to the definition given by the Higher Education Academy, employability is:
A set of achievements-skills, understandings and personal attributes - that makes graduates more likely to gain employment and be successful in their chosen occupations, which benefits themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy.
(HEA, 2012, p.4, based on Yorke 2006)
Skills given above are what students should develop and invest during the process of studying for a degree. Obviously, these skills called transferable skills are both relevant to employment and study. 'These skills are interpersonal as well as intellectual, and include the skill to learn from experience as well as reading, the ability to manage yourself, basic skills in numeracy, literacy and IT, interpersonal group-working and communication skills in analyzing and solving problems' (Cameron, 2008:19). So whether students could gain transferable skills in the university has become a major factor of developing a career after their graduation.
Importance of transferable skills
Browsing want advertisements, it can be easily found that most of companies are looking for employees who have transferable skills involved in: passions towards working, responsibility, communication skills, team-working skills, etc. The skills which...
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The amount of skill that is needed to work efficiently and be successful is vastly different in a job than it is a career. Anybody can get into a job, as they are simple and easy to get the hang of most of the
The skills I need to succeed in an HR career is the same skills I need to apply to achieve a claim. Skills on how to interrogate people involve in a situation and how to ask questions about it, showing responsibility and justifying risk for the employer, an organizational skills needs to be applied when it comes to documentation and capability to handle people, procedures, and result.
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at the same time as ‘employability’ has spawned a broad variety of definition, we focal point upon that of the attractive. Student Employability bringing mutually. Team (ESECT) which defined employability as ‘a set of skills, information and individual attributes that create a personality more likely to protect and to be winning in their selected profession(s) to the benefits of themselves, the workforce, the community and the economy’. This meaning and the unambiguous apprehension to join maintain for knowledge and enhanced employability, which marked out the ESECT approach, both emphasized employability as a process rather than a state and accorded a potentially strong role for Personal Development Planning (PDP) in the consideration of it. Elsewhere key members of the ESECT team (Knight and Yorke, 2004, p.9) argue for the importance
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